Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-16
ON TIE TRAIL.
The Travis County Officers in Hst
Pursuit Of the Two Train Rob
bars Surprised at ManchaCa.
a Dot&ilad account OF How They Made
zheir Escape-EorsSs, Hats and
Shoes Taken From PaSsers bys
TScy Admit That They Committed Che Nc
NnnI Train Robbery and Say They are
In the Bcsinsss to Say.
THE MANCHACA BANDITS.

- ECiEi 10 the iJGZette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Sept. 1.-THE robbers
continue 10 be all the topic ia Austin,
even Tie ASy uln scardsl having given
place 10 it. Various rumorS haYe been
ad2at, The latest rtgardipg the man Erssl
now il ISL. Some assert that ne is really
: detective playing the jail game TO pull
tie wool ever the eyes Of the other o&n-
dis. Following is about the latest from
tie outlaws il their flight, furnished by
mGG who was in tie pursuit and reached
Austia on the 10 o'clock train from Red
Il ok, II BastrOP County.B
The first the robbers did sitter
their escsps fror. jim Martin and his
posse ~ Mach; ca was to pOunCe upon
q negro OF horseback, whom they met
about O mile from their camp. They
ordered Tie frightened darky
TO JUMP OFF,
which ne did, his e es rolling up ike the
fpll moon. Then in q second both
5cstrode the animal, and hatless and
snOeless g2ilOped aWay, but finding they
could rot get over fences they abandoned
the horse and proceeded on foot, going
i've miles il the direction of Red Rock, in
Bassrop. TIE two bandits went
20 the house of citizen named
6. c. YorbrCUgh and told him
they wanted couple Of horses, He in
formed them ne had only one and did not
Han+ to lec h!m &C.
Then by lell, we'll take him anyhow"
cEe OF them said, and giving the aston
ished YaIbTough $50 .hey mounted the
horse.
"Now give M your hat" said one OF
! the outlaws, glari9g al their victim.
| "Cake IT'D said the citizen, "now I
of them shcee,n said the other bandit.
take them, too," replied Yar0rough
as he united his shoestrings.
'Ba damned quicb, ''eXclsim ed the other
az ne adjusted an old farmers hag to big
mead.
Leaving Yarbrough's home The two
robbers steered for Red Rock IL their
! G.ght, cutting with i hatchet, which they
! tcok from Yar1gQug1, the fences Oh the
! plantations Of BGd Driskill, Judge Ter
ren, William Blocker, Mr. TriSg and 9th
ers. They passed down MaaEn creek,
/ Sama dista1 Guw, he creek they met
old man Tom Mercer
RIDING A FINE HORSE.
| Accosti32 hun "a the roa3 they said TO
him:
awe want that. Ne had q he'll Of a
time WITH tue CHEERS this morning and
mu3s have your morse"
II dom. ike to give him up" said
Mercer.
'tBut you must, " said one OF them al
the ssue time preparing 20 draw his six
shooter.
Mercer observed the movement and
quietly said: "Well, il I must, l must,
that's all, so here ne is. Take him"
They seemed 10 bave some sense q
honor, for, tSkirg Mercer's address, they
tC!d him il -Four days he would set . let
Ter telling where he would find his horse
Old man Mercer hal considerable talE
with the ROBBERS. They told him they
had committed h MCNEIL train ROBBERY
and by hsI they intended
70 COMMIT MANY MORE.
Taey said hey had intended
10 rob ina train 81 Man
cEaca last Saturday nignt
that there we're five men in the party
three Only az whom were visible, two G
them being out sbitmishing, as the,
called t, when the officers attacked them
They expressed the opinion that thei
companion, the man Eussl, gave then
aq7sy at Mauchacs. Mercer says bot
bandits wore blue checked shirts an
hight PANS One of them is small ma
with black mousygCge and TWO week
beard Tla small man was shot in tn
encounter a. MaEchaca, and Mercer say
the bullet struck him
IN THE FOREHEAD,
but elauced around on the lef5 side, cut
tiog bloody gssh OF three inches i
length, but apparently not injuring tn
{ bone. Tie larger man wore none
! belt, which he tod Mercer WAS full c
money. One Of the outlaws wore wv
pistols. Taey told Msrcer the officers la
got over 500 from them, but the
would be ID if they didn'
e make Jay Gould pay for it. Sher
Hornsby and Constable Thorpe CT Trsyi
county, were Sunday night on the trail
the robbers. M. F. E. Jones, tro?
whom the following account is had, g
=, back to Austin this morning from Re
} Rock He says the robbsrs told Nero,
they d!d't give damn for the guards G
the train.